Improvement in cooking-stoves



W. P. ABE'NDROTH.

CQOKING-STOVE. No. 173,875. Patented Feb. 22, 1876.

WITNESSES.

IN'VENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

WILLIAM P. ABENDROTH, OF PORT CHESTER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKlNG-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,875, dated February22,1876; application filed October 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown th at I, WILLIAMP. ABENDROTH, of Port Chester, countyiofWestchester and State of New York, have invented certain new, and usefulImprovements in (looking-Stoves, &c.; and the following is a correctspecification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure l is an end elevation of a stove, showing the improvementsin section, and Fig. 2 is a top view on plan of the stove orrange.

It is often the case that such stoves require to be placed in such aposition that the pipe may be more conveniently placed on the top thanon the back of the stove or range, and vice versa, thereby requiring anentire change of the pipe-connections, whenever the stove is moved toanother location.

Now, the object of this invention is to provide a stove or range havingthis facility of change,or opportunity of placing the pipe either on thetop or side, as may be desired; and the invention consists in making twoholes, one on the top and the other on the side or back, precisely alikein shape and size, and providing a cover for one and a movable flangedrim for the other; and then providing each with a bar and screw-bolt tofasten them in proper position when desired, and so that they may bealternates--the one for the otherwhenever the location of the pipe is tobe changed.

At A is represented a round hole in the top of the stove and near theback edge, and at a right angle to it, and on the back side is madeanother hole, as at B, which opens into a flue, as at O, which isrecessed into the back side of the oven D, as at Fig. 1.

Both of said holes A and B are of the same size and shape, and a cover,as at E, is made to fit either of said holes, and upon its under side istapped a screw-thread, into which a bolt may be screwed through a bar,as at F,

which reaches across the hole, so that the cover may be fastened uponeither hole, if desired.

A flanged ring, as at G, is also made to fit either of said holes, inprecisely the same manner as the cover, and, by having a bar extendacross its base to receive a screw-bolt, it may be fastened over eitherhole in the same manner as the cover, if desired, and thereby theybecome interchangeable with each other, and said flanged ring serves toreceive the first joint of the pipe, and to hold it in position upon thestove or range, as the case may be.

Now, it is evident that, by such an arrangementgif the pipe, flange, orring G be placed on the back side, as shown in the drawings, then thehole in the top may be used as a boiler-hole and the cover need not befastened thereon, and this constitutes one of the great advantages ofsuch a construction, as it gives an extra boiler-hole on the top of thestoveor range whenever the pipe is placed on the side, and, at the sametime, furnishes a stove that is adapted for having the pipe placed 011the top, whenever it becomes more convenient to have it so connected.

It is also evident that other means for holding the cover on the ring onthe stove may be used without departing from the nature of theinvention.

I therefore claiin A cooking stove or range provided with twopipe-holes, one ofwhich may be used as a boiler-hole, in combinationwith an interchangeable cover and a flanged collar for the pipe, adaptedto fit in either hole, substan tially' as described.

WILLIAM P. ABENDROTH.

Witnesses:

Born ELIOT, A. H. NoRRIs.

